DSA-250

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    DSA-250

    Published: 12 Feb 2003Last Modified: 4 Jul 2022

    Summary: w3mmee-ssl - missing HTML quoting

    Details: Hironori Sakamoto, one of the w3m developers, found two security vulnerabilities in w3m and associated programs. The w3m browser does not properly escape HTML tags in frame contents and img alt attributes. A malicious HTML frame or img alt attribute may deceive a user to send their local cookies which are used for configuration. The information is not leaked automatically, though. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.p23.3-1.5. Please note that the update also contains an important patch to make the program work on the powerpc platform again. The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by these problems. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.p24.17-3 and later. We recommend that you upgrade your w3mmee-ssl packages.

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High